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Didn't Learn The Cause. The Reason for Timothy Rogers Death Remain a Mystery. Special to the Brooklyn Times. Bay Shore, Long Island; January 8, 1896. Coroner Bennett, of Patchogue, held an inquest yesterday afternoon in the courtroom at Bay Shore, over the remains of Timothy Rogers, the man who was found frozen by the side of the railroad track yesterday morning. The part of the railroad near where the man was found seems peculiarly liable to have accident happen near it. The coal train accident of a couple of week ago took place but a few rods to the east of the scene of this morning's case, and about the same distance to the west of the spot where Peter Jackson, a young colored boy, was run over by a train last summer. At the inquest, Charles W. Vail was foreman of the coroner's jury. The examination found no indication that the man had been killed by any violence, was found lying flat on his back, with his feet toward the track, worked on Monday, on H. B. Hydes place, and is said to have been seen in Bay Shore Monday evening. The Jury brought in a verdict of death due to unknown He could hardly have chosen to lie down and go to sleep In that place on such a freezing cold, night. The spot was unsheltered. It is thought that he must have dropped in a fit, or from heart trouble, and then frozen to death. It is impossible to learn more definitely. Rogers married, some years ago, Millie Clock, a daughter of John Clock, of Islip. They lived in Islip some time, and then Roger took a trip out West. On his return, quite recently, the couple had lived in one of L. Selah Brown's houses, at Bay Shore. Rogers was a son of John Rogers of Babylon,.

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